Teambuilding

This is a super outdated post.

On 15th August 2009, I went to my company's teambuilding event where the company select only 25 staff to participate. The reason for selecting only 25 staff is because some of the staff is overseas for implementation, support and etc.

Anyhow, this is the 1st time I went for teambuilding and I was pretty excited. We had our teambuilding at Agrotech Resort, Ulu Langat. The place where it's nearby the popular Lookout Point in Cheras/Ampang.

We reached there around 9am and we started off with the 25 of us been separated into 4 groups. The groups is actually been arranged by our management beforehand and so... we just go into the group we're assigned to...

Red Group which coincidently, is my group too!!! I love RED!!! GO GO GO RED!!!!! :D

Green Group...
Yellow Group
Blue Group

Once we're in our group, we have to design our own group logo and our own team "shouts". My team came up with the name Triple-Xtreme name thanks to my team leader... I kinda forgot why he named it that also... :P

Each team will have their team's color cloth and we were to cut it into pieces to share among the team members. Ours is slightly special cuz we've drawn our team logo onto our banner... and then we were thinking where to put our "banner"... The suggestions were to tie around our neck, our wrist, our arm or...............

Over the head... kakakakakaka.... Yes that's my team leader with the red banner...
But he prefer to tie around his thigh.. And so he continue to intro our logo and the team members...

After the introduction, we proceed with some indoor games where 1 of the game is to get 4 strands of white hair and pass it to the judge.......

So... Kesian those with white hair lar.. Everyone rushing to their head and pluck out their white hair...
Then we have stacking nails game....
And also trying to bring down the fishing rod game...

After lunch, we're off to Jungle Trekking... I tell you, this is SERIOUSLY not an easy tasks!!!!! I thought what I have to do was just walking around the jungle and try to avoid those leeches... BUT IT'S FREAKING MORE THAN THAT!!!!!!!!!!!

Off to the jungle ~~~
This is the first slope... looks easy... And yes I still can handle this....
Followed by 3453413435 slope!!!!!!!! It's SOOO slippery and I have to CLIMB it!!!!!!
Of course there's some "downhill" slope which really is "sap sap" water....
We get to have a 5 minutes rest to check on whether there's leeches on our legs or body...
And followed by downstream along the river... T_T
I tell you, it LOOKS easy but when you walk on the FREEZING COLD river, your leg is NUMBED!!!
Not only that, you'll hurt your blardy feet with all the HUMONGOUS rocks IN the river!!!!!
Finally, we've all managed to survive this "river walk" after about 20minutes...
FINALLY!!! THE ROAD!!!! A BIG BRIGHT ROAD ~~~
1 of my colleague playfully said "MOM!!! Thank god!!! I'm finally out of da jungle!!!"

So once we're out of the jungle trekking, we went back to the room to continue with some "in-house" activity followed by lunch and then off we head to...............

FLYING FOX ~~~~~~~~
It's actually damn blardy far and damn blardy long!!! See us climbing up the hill??
All of us waiting in line to try out the Flying Fox which I tell you, I'm trembling!!!
1st to head off is Green Team's Leader... Damn "yau ying" huh?? :D
When it's my turn, from this pic, u can see I'm trying to calm myself......
Then off I go... WOOOOHOOOOOO!!!!!!!
After less than a minute, I'm near to da ground looking happy happy....
PEACE!!!! I REACHED!!! I REACHEDDDDDDDDDD ~~~~
OK now I'm stuck... pls get me down heh??
Careful of where you put ur hands ar uncle... CAAAARRREEEFFFUULLLLLLL!!!!
WOKEH!!! I'm off da hook!!!! It was fun... And I wish to play again...
The last to come down is Jesus, the team building co-ordinator...
He said "I'm flying ~~~"
OIK!!! I'm stuck lar dei!!!!!!!
Woi can you let me finished my "flight" ar?!?!?
DANG!!!!! Help pls???

So that's how he's been "conned" by not letting him finished his flight... How we all wish to just dump him there hanging and scream for help.. HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! That's for making us all sweat like hell in da jungle trekking... :P

So after all the exciting events, we're back into the room for some in-house games again. This time, we're gonna play "Amazing Race" where we have to get the items from the clues given.

I tell you, we have to run around the place like monkeys looking for food!!! Even my boss, who came by just for a while (I think to make sure we really is enjoying this teambuilding or plainly to just check on us), saw us all running around like mad... And that caused me to sweat more!!! I think I lose at least 2kgs of sweats!!! :P

Done our "Amazing Race" and all of us looked dead-beat....
Given the clues, we have to fixed some puzzle....
Me trying to figure out how to formed a square from 4 odd shaped err... rectangle...
Our group all hard at work... There's 4 different puzzles to be solved...
We're trying to build a 3D pyramid....
FINALLY DONE!!! First to come in from Amazing Race, last to go out on puzzle solving *shy*
But anyway, at least we got TEAM SPIRIT!!! GO GO GO eXTREME!!!!! :D
Finally.. yes FINALLY... it's time to go home.. and this is group picture!!!!!!!
Another group pic with the Jesus, I mean... the 1 who got stucked while "flying"... :P
A more relaxing pose... All of us really did have fun that day!!!! YAYYYY ~~~

I'm so so tired.. ~_~

Yes I am.



New year...


New job...



New resolution...




or so it seems....


Imagine that I have to get up as early as 6am to get myself prepared to work... I've asked myself to go sleep at 10:30pm where compared to last time... I'll be sleeping at 12am averagely...

Why get up so early when my work starts at 9am?? And yes, I reach office before 8am sometimes... "geng lehhh"...... muahahahahah...

Well the reason is extremely simple...

I just wanted to avoid TRAFFIC jam as well as "HUMAN" jam...

Let me explain...

TRAFFIC jam
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I drove to the nearest LRT station (which is Taman Jaya) and park my car inside the LRT station itself... which costs me about RM3 (consider cheap adi)... As you all know, school started already, so EVERYWHERE tends to have SUPER DUPER heavy traffic thanks to those parents who're sending their kids to school and etc.

For me, sending them to school is OK. But what's NOT OK for me is that... they will stop their stupid car in the middle of the road just to let their kids to go off!!! Can't they be considerate and look for a free space that WILL NOT block the traffic!?!??! Sighhh ~~~

Then I also saw some "smart" parents who'll PARK their car ALMOST in the middle of the road just to take their kids hands and walk them to school. Mind you, I really don't mind them walking their kids to school but PUHHHLLLEEEAAAZZZEEEEE... can't they just PARK their stupid car somewhere that WILL NOT block the traffic as well!?!?? Even some parents I saw them walking their SECONDARY school kids to school!!! My gawddd ~~~ They grew up adi lah!!! PUUHHLLLEEEAAZZEEEE let them walk themselves to school can anot?!?!? Sighhh ~~~

"HUMAN" jam
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Once I parked my car nicely, I'll take the LRT to work (i.e: Ampang Park LRT Station) and then walk a bit to Menara Citibank. Yes my new office is inside Menara Citibank and no... I'm not working for Citibank...

So....... If I take LRT later than 7:30am in Taman Jaya LRT station itself, I'll definitely have to wait AT LEAST AFTER 2 trains to passby before I managed to hop-in to the train itself. Reason is because there's a lot of humans in the train already loh...... A LOT till you can't even SQUEEZE in a little bit... No.. not because I'm fat that I'm not able to squeeze in but believe me, even you're as thin as Huei also you won't be able to get in.. 'cuz EVERY SINGLE door on that train will be packed till you can't even set 1 feet of yours in... Imagine that...

Even if I finally managed to squeeze in, I'll definitely be standing EXTREMELY close to the other humans standing in front-behind-left-right of me... So yeah... I'll be surrounded and they'll be touching me from my shoulder till my feet... Sighhh ~~~ I felt like I'm being molested... hahahahah!!

There's once where I was standing near the door and got 1 Malay auntie squeeze onto me when she board the train. The way she squeeze into me is this.... I have to "protect" my "chest" from "touching" or being "touched" by other humans, so I'll use both my arm and put it in front of my "chest". Then this Malay auntie came squeezing in that when she managed to board the train, her "chest" is "touching" my arm. Well that's OK for me 'cuz I'm not "rugi" but erm... Imagine the train is moving and as you know, we're standing... So we tends to move left and right when the train is moving... SOOOOO... her "chest" will be on my arm moving left and right and it makes me feels so damn "pai seh"!!!

I can't move my arm away cuz it'll be like............................. OK you go figure and I didn't want to talk about it.. THINK of it also makes me shivers!!!

ANYHOW... that's the reason why I must reach the LRT station before 7:30am and why I must get up at 6am.

Sighhh ~~~

Imagine... I left the house at 6:30am... the sky is dark...





I reach office at 7:15am... the sky is still dark...


Then when I off work... I left office at 7pm (to avoid "human" jam again)... the sky is still dark again!!! Sighhh ~~~ I think I'm gonna have some "sun malnutrition" soon... kekekekekeke...



Actually, I can't complain much though.. it is something I chose to do... it's not like anyone forcing me huh?? Sighhh ~~~

Some say I can be a good staff... 'cuz it'll be like... I'll be working extra hours for the company...

Well I say... everything comes with a price... don't you agree??

HAPPY WORKING EVERYONE!!! :P

I'm TOUGH!!!!

Dun misunderstood lar... it doesnt mean that i'm tough physically ler... it means i'm tough mentally ler... why??? physically me not tough cuz...... dunno leh.... being born like that mar... although i'm fat... but it doesnt mean i'm tough physically mar.. true???

Well why i said i'm tough mentally.... hmmm... ok the story goes like this.... After joining teddy's company... meaning my new office also lar... teddy has assigned me a project whereby i must finish the prototype of an online system to "demo" it to our company's partner. Well i cant reveal much about this system and about the partner as this is quite "con-pi-dential"...

I was doing it since the 1st day that i joined the company up till today... Thursday... the 4th day i'm in the company. The system can say not-so-easy and not-so-difficult.. depends on ur programming skills lar.... so yeah.. i'm quite weak in ASP .Net or can say... I'm weak in .Net programming language... i was coding 1 part of the system that i found it quite difficult till i have to search high and low to see how it grabs the data from a particular variable....

Actually... the whole system is a "dupe" from a system that have gone "LIVE"... its just that i have to amend it to become another similar system but more user friendly lah... It actually was developed by Teddy and his team. I didnt ask teddy straight away on how the variable capture the data 'cuz teddy is super busy... yes he's absolutely SUPER busy... even shit also he got no time... stomach ache also have to tahan the shit... so u say... "kelian" him or not leh??

Anyway, at last, i "buay" tahan oledi.... i search for almost 2 hours also i cant find how the stupid variable capture the data... then when finally teddy "appear" out of no where (he got meeting almost whole day today, so cant really see him at his place mar..), i quickly pull him and ask: -

Me: "Teddy ah... how did this thing capture the data 1?? I do until blur blur adi leh... 'manyak' headache leh.."
Teddy: "Orhhh... this 1 grab from here.." *click on the screen tab* "Then it will get a temporary table from here.." *click on various tab ledi... my eyes start to go blur ledi..* "Then like that loh.. the data is stored in this variable... Walao u do this so easy oledi said difficult ah?? then if i give u do ERP, u lagi faint ah!!"
Me: -____- *his word seems quite harsh* "Orhhhh... like that lar... okok... now i understand liao..." *I really understand 1 ok?? no play play hoh!!*

Sighhh... he said that... i really stunned for a while before i answer him leh... but anyway, i wont take it to my heart as i know i'm "char" in this .Net... so i'll try my very best to improve myself!!! his word is some sort like an encouragement to me to be better!!!

So i finally managed to do it and was working till quite late.... around 7pm, the receptionist passby my place and said this: -

Recep: "Eh u havent balik ah??"
Me: "Yeah loh not yet..." *eyes still looking at my monitor* (do work till 'kan cheong' ledi mar... dun 1 to have any distraction!!!)
Recep: "Wah this is ur 1st week joining the company already so hardworking ah?? hehehehe.."
Me: -____- *she said this seems quite harsh also* (FORCED to look at her and smile) "Ya loh... need to rush something mar... :D" <-- super fake BIG smile

Walao... 1 day kena errrr.... kena.... HARSH words TWICE leh.... mana boleh???? well... nvm... i tahan loh... this is working life mar... ok lar... take a deeeeeep breath... so nvm... talk watever they want lar... i'm TOUGH!!!!